Great Rift Valley
31 Januari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Back on the road, beginning in Nairobi on 20 January. Today is the first chance I have had to have WIFI that would allow me to upload pictures.
These few pictures are taken from the roadside on theBaca lagi
The Masai Village
31 Januari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
The Masai are the native people in this part of Africa. We visited a traditional Masai village where we were welcomed with the village's own welcome dance where they got us all to participate. We wereBaca lagi
Masai Mara
31 Januari 2018, Kenya ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
National park maintained and protected by the local Masai people as it is part of their historic lands. This large is essentially an extension of the Serengeti into Kenya. Lots of wildlife that willBaca lagi
Masai Mara lions
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The last 2 are an afternoon nap and a coupke cubs peeking over a rock ledge
Masai Mara cheetahs
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
The last 2 pictures are of a cheetah having lunch. I don't know for sure what the prey was, but was likely a gazelle. What you don't see is 2 trees full of vultures waiting their turn
Masai Mara elephants
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
The last picture appears to be a couple juveniles acting like a mating ritual
Masai Mara hippos and Nile crocodiles
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Resting near each other in the Mara River
Masai Mara giraffes
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Masai Mara black rhino
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Very rare and very hard to see. Look closely, he's is hiding in the bushes, which is where they typically hide and why they are hard to find
Masai Mara antelopes and gazelles
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Masai Mara other fauna
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
wart hog, ostrich, hyena, guinea fowl, zebra, buffalo
Lake Nakuru
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
If you've seen TV shows where flamingos are "dancing" in a salt lake, this is such a place. The downside right now is that about every 50 years, the water level rises in the lake, diluting theBaca lagi
Lake Nakuru Park
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
If you look closely at the map, you will see that Lake Nakuru is part of a national park. In addition to the flamingos, other species are present. The rhinos here are white rhinos
The equator on the way to Uganda
2 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Sunset on the White Nile
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Now in Uganda in the town of Jinja
Murchison Falls
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Called the most powerful falls in the world, not the biggest, but the falls with the most water passing through a narrow rock cut. Hence the highest power. Pic are from below and from above theBaca lagi
Cruise on the Victoria Nile
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
In Murchison Falls National Park. The Victoria Nile feeds into Lake Albert. When the Nile leaves Lake Albert it is known as the Albert Nile. It becomes the Blue Nile when it gets to Khartoum.
This isBaca lagi
Cruise on the Victoria Nile II
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Besides birds, there were many hippos and elephants, including one group of elephants bathing. And some more birds. The red throated birds are bee eaters
Chimp Sanctuary
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
The chimps are in the trees feeding. They are hard to see. So look closely.
Rhino Sanctuary
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
A preserve set up to rebuild the populations of white rhinos. They have received adults from a ranch in Kenya and Disneyworld's animal park. It turns out that the first calf born at the reserve a fewBaca lagi
Gorilla tracking
2 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
This was one of the toughest hikes I've ever done. Walking in the rain forest up and down some pretty steep hills, crossing streams on logs and rocks (sometimes), ankle deep in mud, slippery roots andBaca lagi
Zanzibar, Stone Town Slave Market
21 Februari 2018, Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ -5 °C
Zanzibar was the major slave trading center in East Africa up until about 100 years ago. The Stone Town market was closed in the late 19th century, but the trading continued clandestinely for someBaca lagi
Nairobi
21 Februari 2018, Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
A view of the skyline with Uhuru (Freedom) Park in the foreground. This is where a major events in Nairobi take place, most recently the swearing in of Raila as "People's President." Pictures of theBaca lagi
Lake Bunyonyi Uganda
21 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
One of the largest, deepest lakes in Uganda, formed behind a lava dam. Various view of the lake taken on a boat ride to a pygmy village (see next post). The first pic is anohther boat on its way toBaca lagi
Pygmy Village on Lake Bunyonyi
21 Februari 2018, Uganda ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The pygmies had originally lived where the gorilla park now is . When that park was established, the villages were moved out of the park. This is one of the relocated villages. We were welcomed withBaca lagi



















































































































































